Question 1

Can a student be in more than 1 group?

Accepted Answer

You can put a student in as many groups as you want. The platform is designed to keep things flexible for you. This way you can see data results and get reports across a variety of characteristics you choose.

Generally though, you don't need to group students by any of the data you add on a student's profile—i.e. grade level, background flags, etc.—since you will be able to sort students by these fields at any time.

Question 2

How do I add assessment results?

Accepted Answer

You can add assessment results by clicking on the Add Assessment Results button on the Assessments page.

There are a number of options available for adding assessment results. The goal is to be able to map all assessment results together on the same graph regardless of assessment type.

(Don't worry. You can of course also graph only results for a specific type as well by sorting by assessment type.)

Input basic assessment data.
Choose an assessment type: Kid-Inspired, WIDA, or Other.
Choose whether to use suggested standards or set your own standards. A score is created by dividing the score the student got in each language domain by the standard for that language domain on the assessment. For WIDA, for instance, the suggested standard is 4.5 since that is what is usually required for students to test out of LEP services. The standards for Kid-Inspired assessments differ for each assessment and those standards are added automatically if you select Use Suggested Standards.
You can change any of these details later on the assessments page.
The assessment results can be added to certain forms automatically as well at a later date.
**Tip: **After adding results, you'll get a button that allows you to load the form again with all of the options you previously selected already selected for you. This helps speed up the process of adding assessment results.

Add Assessment Results Now ->

Question 3

Are Kid-Inspired Classroom resources copyrighted? What is the legal use agreement?

Accepted Answer

The Kid-Inspired ESL Curriculum License Agreement

Teachers can use the curriculum as long as they maintain an active subscription to the membership and are only using it with students they personally teach live and in-person whether it's online or offline. If the curriculum is being used on a freelance platform, like Outschool, for example, please leave a link to the Kid-Inspired website as a reference.

Not Allowed Under the License Agreement

The following items are NOT allowed under the Kid-Inspired Classroom License Agreement.

Users may not:

Re-package the curriculum in any way
Build a Self-Paced, Resellable Program Out Of the Resources
Resell the Curriculum
Share the Curriculum with Others They Are Not Personally Teaching
Use Resources, Images, Text, or Logos from Kid-Inspired Classroom in Promotional Materials.

If you have any questions or need any clarification, please contact support at support@kid-inspired.com

Question 4

How do I EDIT Assessment or Form results I've already added?

Accepted Answer

You can easily edit results from ASSESSMENTS or from FORMS.

To edit fields visible in the table, just double click on the field.

To edit fields that aren't visible in the table:

Question 5

What is the Lock to All Students filter?

Accepted Answer

The Lock to All Students filter lets you show students without other groups. Since students can be in more than 1 group, the same records can show up in the table more than once for each group that is displayed and the student is part of. To lock to all students simply:

Set the "Lock to All Students" filter to "Yes".
If you want to filter by groups again, set the "Lock to All Students" filter to nothing or hit the Clear Filters button.

Heads up: When a student is in more than 1 group, their records will show up more than one time in the same table if you have all your groups showing, once for each group that they are in.

Question 6

Free ELL Management Portal Account Terms of Service

Accepted Answer

Free ELL Management Portal Account Terms of Service

These Terms of Service are in addition to the regular Kid-Inspired Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy.

For a limited time, members of the Kid-Inspired ESL Curriculum Membership, Interactive Online ESL Curriculum Membership, or Independent Teachers Membership can create a free account in the ELL Management Portal Membership.

This Free Account Comes with the Following Conditions:

Fifty student seats are provided with the free account.
The free account will remain active only as long as an active memberbership to one of the following is maintained: ESL Curriculum Membership, Interactive ESL Curriculum Membership, Independent Teachers Membership.
If the active membership to the ESL Curriculum Membership, Interactive ESL Curriculum Membership, or the Independent Teachers Membership is canceled, the free ELL Management Portal Membership account will also subsuquently be canceled.

If you have any questions or need any help, please contact support by emailing support@Kid-inspired.com or by visiting the support portal.

Question 7

What are Monitoring Forms?

Accepted Answer

Monitoring Forms are commonly required by most schools in the United States for ELLs who are either in the ELL program or have exited it. Very often Former ELLs need to have monitoring forms completed about them by their content teachers for a period of up to 2 years after they have exited the program.

The Monitoring Forms included with the Kid-Inspired ELL Management Portal are there to help simplify this process for ELL teachers. For ELL teachers who need this functionality, you can invite colleagues, assign them to groups, and then schedule monitoring forms to be sent to those colleagues. Those colleagues can log into the platform and fill out the forms for the students in the group you assigned them. You can view all of the results as well as print reports.

Kid-Inspired Classroom is not responsible for state compliance though so be sure to know and understand the laws in your area in order to make sure you are complying by them.

Question 8

How do I filter or search a table when I have created a lot of records?

Accepted Answer

You can use the Search bar above the table on the page to search for records by typing.

Or you can click on the Table Filters dropdown in the sidebar to filter only the records you want to view.

Question 9

How do I assign materials online using Google Classroom?

Accepted Answer

Using materials on-line in Google Classroom is simple.

If you're already a member of the Kid-Inspired community, you can log in and take the course Engaging Learners Online! for lots more resources and strategies you can use while teaching online.

Start the Course

To get access to the curriculum, you can choose from one of the following memberships:

Kid-Inpspired ESL Curriculum Membership ->

Includes the entire curriculum and all supplementary teaching resources.

Independent Teachers Membership ->

Includes the entire **Kid-Inspired ESL Curriculum Membership **
Also includes your own website, payment processing, scheduling, course-building software, community of other teachers going independent, training courses on topics such as finding students, desigining your site, marketing, etc.

Question 10

How does the numbering on the lesson pages work? (i.e. Unit 1 #1, Unit 1 #1.1, etc)

Accepted Answer

If you've started using the curriculum, then you've probably noticed the numbers at the top of the pages within lessons.

The numbering system may seem a little odd at first.

Let me explain the logic behind the system and why it can be a little odd at times:

**Here were the criteria I wanted to meet: **

Each page, organizer and worksheet had its own number in case you were assigning a single page to students and needed to refer to it.
Subsidiary pages would be numbered in relation to their primary page. (Primary page like a vocabulary page for instance = Unit 1 #1; Subsidiary pages like vocabulary worksheets related to the primary page = Unit 1 #1.1, 1.2, 1.3, etc.)

**Here were some of the challenges that came up: **

Over the course of creating materials for the curriculum, some of which were created only for the site (we don't use them at our school) a couple of things happened from time to time:

Sometimes, subsidiary pages could relate to more than one primary page and when I chose to put them in one lesson as opposed to another, the numbering was sometimes off.
Sometimes, I chose to leave out a page from a lesson because I didn't feel like it was up to standard or was one too many pages for that lesson or still needed work. This has created gaps at times in the numbering.

The primary reason for the system is to give you a way to refer to a specific page, so you can safely ignore it if it does not benefit you.